Significant Step That Further Reinforces Successes Of The eIPO Platform: DFM...
Dubai Financial Market (DFM) today announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Dubai’s Department of Finance (DoF) and Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB). According to this...
View ArticleAdding it all up: the macroeconomic impact of Basel II and outstanding reform...
As the Basel III package nears completion, the emphasis is shifting to monitoring its implementation and assessing the impact of the reforms. This paper presents a simple conceptual framework to assess...
View ArticleThomson Reuters To Offer Financial Community Exclusive, Live U.S. Election...
Thomson Reuters will host live news and commentary on the U.S. elections for Eikon Messenger users via its Global Markets Forum (GMF) as events unfold, offering the market direct access to senior...
View ArticleFidessa's Sentinel Named Best Buy-Side Compliance Product - Seventh Win In...
Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) today announced that Sentinel has been voted best buy-side compliance product at the 2016 Buy-side Technology Awards. This is the seventh win for Sentinel at these awards...
View ArticleSave The Date: ACER-CEER Conference: âThe New Energy Market Design...
ACER and CEER will host a conference in Brussels to discuss the key issues and associated regulatory challenges emerging from the European Commission’s proposals on the new Energy Market Design. The...
View ArticleUK's Financial Conduct Authority Unveils Successful Sandbox Firms On The...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) today marks the second anniversary of Project Innovate by announcing the firms that were successful in their applications to begin testing in the first cohort of...
View ArticleRival Systems Wins Award For Best Buy-Side Commodities Trading Platform -...
Rival Systems (Rival), a leading provider of trading and risk management software, has won Buy-Side Technology’s 2016 award for “Best Buy-Side Commodities Trading Platform.” Officials from the Waters...
View ArticleMarket Abuse Hong Kongâs SFC Requirements: The Technancial Company And...
As a result of clear demand for an affordable and credible solution to meet the requirements of Hong Kong’s SFC regarding the avoidance of Market Abuse and Misconduct, eBroker and TTC are offering...
View ArticleMoscow Exchange: A New Approach To The Long Codes Of Options On Derivatives...
Moscow Exchange in accordance with the recommendations of the Technological Committee (dated 9 September 2016) and the Derivatives Market Committee (from September 20, 2016) will adopt a new approach...
View ArticleExchange Traded Fund Workshop Welcome Address By Mr. Oscar N. Onyema, OON,...
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View ArticleAnalyzing the Influence of Occupational Licensing Duration on Labor Market...
We analyze the labor market influence of the duration of occupational licensing statutes for 12 major universally licensed occupations over a 73 year period. These occupations comprise the vast...
View ArticleMisallocation, Establishment Size, and Productivity -- by Pedro Bento, Diego...
We consider a tractable model of heterogeneous production units that features endogenous entry and productivity investment to assess the quantitative impact of policy distortions on aggregate output...
View ArticleHow Information Affects Support for Education Spending: Evidence from Survey...
We study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy preferences by implementing parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United...
View ArticleThe Social Cost of Carbon Revisited -- by Robert S. Pindyck
An estimate of the social cost of carbon (SCC) is key to climate policy. But how should we estimate the SCC? A common approach is to use an integrated assessment model (IAM) to simulate time paths for...
View ArticleThe Compositional Effect of Rigorous Teacher Evaluation on Workforce Quality...
Improving public sector workforce quality is challenging in sectors such as education where worker productivity is difficult to assess and manager incentives are muted by political and bureaucratic...
View ArticleTrade, Pollution and Mortality in China -- by Matilde Bombardini, Bingjing Li
Has the expansion in exports affected pollution and health outcomes across different prefectures in China in the two decades between 1990 and 2010? We exploit variation in the initial industrial...
View ArticleE-governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs: Experimental...
In collaboration with the Government of Bihar, India, we conducted a large-scale experiment to evaluate whether transparency in fiscal transfer systems can increase accountability and reduce corruption...
View ArticleIntertemporal Substitution in Health Care Demand: Evidence from the RAND...
Nonlinear cost-sharing in health insurance encourages intertemporal substitution be- cause patients can reduce their out-of-pocket costs by concentrating spending in years when they hit the deductible....
View ArticleThe Long Shadow of a Fiscal Expansion -- by Chong-En Bai, Chang-Tai Hsieh,...
In 2009 and 2010, China undertook a 4 trillion Yuan fiscal stimulus, roughly equivalent to 12 percent of annual GDP. The "fiscal" stimulus was largely financed by off-balance sheet companies (local...
View ArticleShould Central Banks Care About Fiscal Rules? -- by Eric M. Leeper
This essay aims to explain the nature of monetary and fiscal policy interactions and how those interactions could inform the fiscal rules that countries choose to follow. It makes two points: (1)...
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